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  • Friday the Thirteenth (1933)
  • 89 min | Comedy, Drama
Friday the Thirteenth (1933)
89 min | Comedy, Drama

It is pouring with rain at one minute to midnight on Friday the thirteenth, and the driver of a London bus is peering through his blurred windshield as his vehicle sails down an empty road. Suddenly, lightning strikes, and a vast crane ...See moreIt is pouring with rain at one minute to midnight on Friday the thirteenth, and the driver of a London bus is peering through his blurred windshield as his vehicle sails down an empty road. Suddenly, lightning strikes, and a vast crane above topples into the path of the oncoming bus. Then Big Ben begins to wind backwards. Time recedes, and we discover the lives of all of the passengers and the events that brought them to that late-night bus journey, from the con man with a hundred pound cheque to the businessman's distraught and elderly wife. Time flows on, inevitably, to the crash, and past it, as some live and some die. Written by Igenlode Wordsmith See less
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Director
Writers
Sidney Gilliat (story) | G.H. Moresby-White (story and scenario) | Emlyn Williams (dialogue)
Cinematographer
Charles Van Enger (as C. Van Enger)
Editor
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Updated Nov 30, 1933

Release date
May 15, 1934 (United States)

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30 cast members
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Jessie Matthews
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Sonnie Hale
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Muriel Aked
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Cyril Smith
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Alfred Drayton
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Hartley Power
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Percy Parsons
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Ursula Jeans
Eileen Jackson Eileen Jackson   See fewer
Eliot Makeham
Henry Jackson Henry Jackson   See fewer
Gibb McLaughlin
Florist Florist   See fewer
Edmund Gwenn
Mr Wakefield Mr Wakefield   See fewer
Mary Jerrold
Flora Wakefield Flora Wakefield   See fewer
Gordon Harker
Hamilton Briggs Hamilton Briggs   See fewer
Emlyn Williams
William Blake William Blake   See fewer
Frank Lawton
Frank Parsons Frank Parsons   See fewer
Belle Chrystall
Mary Summers Mary Summers   See fewer
Robertson Hare
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Martita Hunt
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Ralph Richardson
Horace Dawes Horace Dawes   See fewer
Donald Calthrop
Hugh Nicholls Hugh Nicholls   See fewer
Ivor McLaren
Dancing Instructor Dancing Instructor   See fewer
Edward A. Hill-Mitchelson
Minor Role (uncredited) Minor Role (uncredited)   See fewer
Clive Morton
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Wally Patch
Bookmaker (uncredited) Bookmaker (uncredited)   See fewer
Harold Warrender
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